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Air pollution

Climate Trace map shows PM2.5 represented by orange dots streaming across London, SELCHP is a concentrated source o at centre

New map shows air pollution streaming from SELCHP incinerator, Deptford - a "global super emitter"

The Climate Trace project found the SELCHP plant, which burns household waste for Lewisham and other boroughs, to be in the top 10% of PM2.5 air pollution emitters across the world.

Moving traffic on the B218 Brockley Rise

Lewisham air pollution: installing monitors but bottling the behaviour change

Council officers presented the annual Air Quality Action progress report to the scrutiny committee. Although they have installed many new monitors, officers struggled to respond to questions on impact and behaviour change.

Cyclists using the new cycle lane, even though surfacing still patchy.

Deptford Church Street - Lewisham's newest cycle lane already in use

The protected cycle route is due to be completed in November, but cyclists couldn't wait to start using it.

SUV negotiating around parked cars on Deptford High street while cyclist waits to pass.

Deptford High Street – hopes of pestrianisation crushed by gentrification fears

After years of consultation, the council has cancelled its proposal. The opposition campaign had a late surge, linking the plans to "accelerated gentrification".

Campaigners at Lewisham hospital holding the numbers 8218

"A preventable crisis"- over 8000 children admitted to Lewisham hospital struggling to breathe

Campaign group Mums for Lungs are calling for a phase out of polluting diesel cars, SUVs and domestic wood burning to clean up Lewisham's air.

Greenpeace activists absblock ship carrying fuel to Ineos petrochemical plan - while Ineos blocks the global plastics treaty.

Plastics: from pollution to solution

Plastic pollution is out of control and environmental groups have been pushing to secure a global agreement to tackle it. Fossil fuel lobbyists again blocked a full treaty that would cut plastic production. But the fight for a strong treaty and just transition to a reuse-based future goes on.

SELCHP chimney and plant buildings, lorry outside.

Burning plastic at SELCHP incinerator, Deptford - what's coming out of the flue?

The facility has been burning household waste since 1993, and much of that waste is plastics. But concerns about the chemicals in plastics, and the dangers of air pollution, have grown. Wales offers a vision of a different way to manage waste, with some councils recycling over 70% of waste.